Unit #7 Movie NotesName ______
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Jon Foley: The Other Inconvenient Truth (18min)
- What is happening to the rainforest and why?
- What continent represents about the amount of land that we are using for grazing.
- What continent represents about the amount of land we are using for farming?
- Describe what happened to the Aral Sea?
- Why is agriculture the biggest greenhouse emitter?
- Why is agriculture the biggest single factor of change in this last century?
- What trend does Jon think is going to happen to agriculture and why?
- What is the problem with expanding farmland?
- What is Jon’s balancing act? What needs to be balance?
- What is Terraculture?
Ellan Gustafson: Obesity and Hunger = 1 Global Problem (9 min)
- What is school feeding and how does it help with poverty and nutrition?
- How has the amount of hungry people in America change in the last 30 years?
- How many of these hungry people are children?
- How many americans are overweight or obese
- How has the rate of obesity changed in the last 30 years?
- What have been the changes in obesity for adults?
- What are the majority of food items today made from?
- Who are most of the hungry people in the world?
- How has what is farmed led to changes in our food system in this country?
- What is Ellans goal for the future? (3 things)
Josette Sheeran: “Ending Hunger Now!” (20 min)
- How many people can not fill a cup with food each day?
- According to Josette- Why should you care about ending hungar (give at least 3 reasons)
- If there is enough food to give everyone there required 2,700 Kcals/day, why are 1 billion people starving?
- Why is it important for children to get proper nutrition? (give 3 reasons)
- What things can be done to help children get the right nutrition?
- What is the best program that works as a food safety net? What is another benefit of this program?
- What other simple ideas can help to make people food secure?
- What is the cost benefit argument for access to food for all of humanity?
Mark Bittman “What's wrong with what we eat?” (20min)
- Why are cows so bad for the environment?
- Why is the western diet so bad?
- What do animals and junk food have in common?
- How does agribusiness get in the way of a more healthy diet?
- How many animals are killed for the US each year? ______
- What is a Locavore?
- Describe the history of food for the last 100 years.
1900’s
1970’s
2000’s
- What is the simple formula according to Mark Bittman?
Graham Hill: “Why I'm a weekday vegetarian” (4min)
- Why is eating meat bad for you, and the environment, and unethical?
- How is being a weakday veg good for you, animals, and the environment?
Ann Cooper “Talks about school lunches” (19min)
- Why do we need to teach children about the symbiotic relationship between food, their health, and the health of the planet?
- How much of our food does agribusiness control? ______
- What is the result of giving animals antibiotics?
- What is sustainable food?
- How will unhealthy food affect our health system?
- How are the governement and an unhealthy food system connected?
- How is what we eat affecting our family time?
- Why does Ann say this is a social justice issue?
Fed Up - Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture and Sustainable Alternatives (58min)
- What are 5 negative aspects of industrial agriculture?
- What were the three parts of the green revolution?
- According to Vandana describe 3 negative things that came from the green revolution in India?
- How were pesticides developed?
- How were fertilizers developed?
- How does the green revolution’s method compare to organic farming?
- How do subsides affect the small farmer?
- What is genetic engineering?
- What are the 3 agencies that can regulate GMO’s and what are they doing?
- What is genetic pollution is it possible to stop it?
- What is a feeding study? What have been some of the results?
- What was the starlink scandal?
- Are GMO’s guaranteed to solve the huger problem? Explain?
- How is world hunger created according to Vandana?
- ______will feed the world not chemicals. ______will feed the world not genetic engineering?
- What is a Community Supported Agriculture CSA and how does it work?
How Food Shapes our Cities – Carolyn Steel (16min)
- Why is feeding people with meat not efficient?
- What is happening to the land as a result of agriculture?
- What started in the fertile crescent?
- Explain how agriculture and cities are connected.
- How has our food system distanced us from or most basic relationship with food?
Seeds lof life:David Vs. Goliath (6 min)
- What does the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) program do?
- What is the concern over agrobacterium?
- Why is an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) being asked for?
- What happened when Monsanto released their Roundup ready alphalfa without an EIS?
- How can we get GMO labeling?
- What was the law that required an EIS to be done?
Tristram Stuart: The Global Food Waste Scandal (14 min)
- What did Tristram notice when he was raising his pigs?
- What did Tristram find about the amount of food most countries have compared to what is needed to feed its population.
- Describe what percentages of food (his biscuits) are being lost and where is it going?
- How much of a farm can be lost because due to cosmetic appearance and not spoilage?
- How much fish is lost?
- What is feeding the 5,000?
Stephen Ritz: A Teacher growing green in the South Bronx (14min)
- What things has Stephen notices in his kids and why does he think this has occurred?
- Talk about some of the successes that Stephen is having with his programs.
- What is the other part of the nutrition solution that Stephen talks about.